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Jean Negulesco (born
Jean Negulescu;
February 26,
1900–
July 18,
1993) was a
Romanian
film director and
screenwriter.
Born in
Craiova, he attended
Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to
Vienna, and, in 1919, to
Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in
Paris. In 1927 he came to
New York City for an
exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there.
In 1934 he entered the
film industry, first as a
sketch artist, then as an assistant
producer,
second unit director and in the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. He made a reputation at
Warner Brothers by directing short subjects, particularly a series of band shorts featuring unusual camera angles and dramatic use of shadows and silhouettes.
The first feature film Negulesco directed was
Singapore Woman in 1941. In 1948 he was nominated for an
Academy Award for Directing for
Johnny Belinda. In 1955, he won the
BAFTA Award for Best Film for
How to Marry a Millionaire. His 1959 movie,
The Best of Everything, made it on
Entertainment Weekly's "
Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" list.
From the late 1960s, he lived in
Marbella,
Spain. He died there at age 93, of heart failure.
During his Hollywood career and in his 1984 autobiography, Negulesco claimed to have been born on
February 29,
1900; he was apparently motivated to make this statement because birthdays on Leap Year Day are comparatively rare. In fact, 1900 wasn't a
leap year, so there was no
February 29 in 1900. Negulesco's autobiography (in which this claim appears) is appropriately titled
Things I Did and Things I Think I Did.
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